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Heavy leather
Answer for the clue "Heavy leather ", 6 letters:
oxhide
Alternative clues for the word oxhide
Word definitions for oxhide in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The skin (hide) of an ox. 2 leather made from the hide of an ox.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oxhide \Ox"hide`\, n. The skin of an ox, or leather made from it. (O. Eng. Law) A measure of land. See 3d Hide .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Oxhide , directed by Liu Jiayin , is a 2005 narrative independent Chinese film that portrays the director's family and their apartment in Beijing . Liu was 23 years old when the film was recorded.
Usage examples of oxhide.
In the torchlight, the drumhead had the russet hue of well-tanned oxhide, but a sheen as of tiny scales hinted of some other origin.
When she had opportunity, she could use any weapon from the ferula birch switch to the flagrum whip of stiff, rough oxhide.
Now, of course, a thousand oxhides have been covered with prayers and hymns and dialogues, all attributed to Zoroaster.
The King came first, in a simple kilt of soft-tanned goatskin, but glittering with the metal that was the tears of the Sun a round crown of sheet gold embossed with studs about his brows and set with tall feather plumes, pectorals of gold shaped like miniature oxhides over his chest, a necklace of gold disks around his neck, a belt of worked gold plates making a broad band about his stomach.
In stark contrast to the massed imp is they wore kilts made of strips of white oxhide, and tall headdresses of snowy egret feathers.
Ajax came up bearing his shield in front of him like a wall a shield of bronze with seven folds of oxhide the work of Tychius, who lived in Hyle and was by far the best worker in leather.